Two Lovers (2009)

Excellent but underrated film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It seems you can make actors do just about anything, regardless how stupid and this film takes the cake. A man condescends to go out with a woman who is in love with Another man to check out if that other man is serious about her.That's when I stopped looking. Instead I began to fantasize about a film that unfortunately has not been filmed yet (and probably never will) about a man who meets a woman with whom he has a sexual relationship in the worst Rocco Siffredi-manner and THEN goes out to dinner in the above mentioned manner.I don't long to see that Movie either since I Believe that women get too humiliated anyway - why would they otherwise try to get rid of their humiliation by putting a man in fool's (harms) way (that's when they tell you they want you to be their friend - some men have found a remedy against that in that they convince such women that friends Always have sexual relationships since that proves their friendship. Later they will not bother much about being friends, provided that the friendship in renewed now and then.)Relationships today are truly very sad. Women get humiliated in sex and then try to sell the humiliation down the river to the next man who is stupid enough to truly love them until he gives up and becomes a swine like all other man today or he just stays the fool which is just as bad.

Thoughts on Two Lovers? I've got to say, I was a bit disappointed. It's pretty good and there's nothing actually bad about it, but it's all a little too safe and it's all a little too predictable. At no point are any of the turns in the story surprising. On one hand the characters and dramatic moments do ring true (even the ending, which may not be what we want because it's pretty depressing in its implications but rings true to the lead character), but it just lacks a certain bite that a film like this needed to have. However, it's still an interesting film and Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow are very good with the material they are given, particularly the former.

There is absolutely no one to root for in this film, not even the girl who is supposedly in love with suicidal Leonard. You have to wonder what in the world is wrong with her to put up with the treatment that results from the senseless pickle her boyfriend has gotten himself into. It's frustrating to watch a film in which depression, stupidity, and ignorance are treated with so little insight. I walked away from the movie thinking that all the characters deserved a swift kick in the pants. Pathetic people behaving badly does not an artful film make. And there is not a funny or witty line uttered. Oh, there was one moment of sense in the film, although I am sure we were supposed to snicker cynically when the good girlfriend says she likes movies and Leonard asks her to name one; she says, "The Sound of Music." Too bad she didn't go watch it instead of taking up with loser Leonard.

a film about choices. and sense of search for the best answer to a deep crisis.a picture. about love and escape from yourself. good performance. a great Joaquin Phoenix role. and something else. because the air, the dark images, the crumbs of silence in middle of dialogs are the best parts of movie. and the beautiful work of Phoenix is the wise manner to use it.it is not an original subject and it has not the value of part from common series. story of a solitude in search of answers, slices from a gray existence, it is a story about hope and the solution who makes you part of a link. a reflection film. and almost a parable.